Mine own fair hand

As I get older I find it's getting harder to control my own handwriting in the way I did when taught to write in beautiful copperplate script in "The Juniors." My signature has, in particular, become very large and spiky ( a graphologist came to the conclusion that I must have been Jack the Ripper in a former existence) with the result that the examples of it which I have to squeeze on to the narrow strips at the back of bank cards, etc. hardly resemble the real thing.
This morning I went along to my local Post Office to purchase, for good old-fashioned cash, a Premium Bond. The cashier looked at my form and noticed that one or two flourishes and curlicues from my signature were projecting outside the signature strip at the end of the application form. "That won't do," he told me, " "They" won't accept the application if the signature isn't inside the box." I pointed out that there were no instructions on the form to alert the applicant to the fact, but I still had to stand aside and fill in another form with my signature squashed inside "The box."
Is it just me, or does anybody else get the feeling that the ordinary man in the street is being bogged down by pettifogging rules and regulations while all sorts of major scams, frauds and crimes are flourishing in this country while the government seems to do little or nothing about them? I'm even starting to believe the conspiracy theorists who think that this is all deliberate and that there are those with influence and power who want to bring about the collapse of Western society as we know it !!

 

Oh Jack, if only you could see my handwriting:( It is just about illegible and I can't blame age for that. It has always been bad but these last few years..... My signature ranges from barely legible to just about being able to see it begins with a C, lol.

I so agree with you about bereaurocracy. It's supposed to speed things up but only causes more mistakes and problems, of course this means the 'system' or 'computer' is to blame! Who are 'they'? that's what I'd like to know. 'They' ought to come and live in the real world for a few months!

cheers

 

Im the same.
When I do joined up writing I am ashamed to think that it belongs to me..
One reason is the use of this instrument I am using to type this note.
We do not practise english these days, and when I see how some of our younger generation write it will not be long before the art of writing is lost forever.
I shall now get of my box and get back to writing my family history:hehe::hehe:
Which, by the way is finished and is several hundred pages long.
robert

 

I'm only 35 but I was taught proper handwriting at school (using that funny lined notepaper) and even had to hand in Maths homework at primary school written in fountain pen!

No my handwriting looking like the efforts of a dyslexic gerbil. Sprawls all over the place. I'm reduced to having to print in block capitals if I need to write something that someone other than myself will be able to decipher! I blame using computers and typing instead of writing.

 

So, Its looks like back to school for us all:flag:
Im sure theres a teacher on this forum somewhere...
Maybe it time for some homework!

 

Well if my handwriting gets any worse when I get older, there be no point in witting as it's only just legible now...

 

I took penmanship and then developed my own style and I actually enjoyed writing and still do ... I also think taking shorthand was a plus .... but I am ashamed to say that my handwriting has got very sloppy with the advent of the computer.

I too hate having to write 'within boxes' although my signature is not flowery and large it has been known to go out of the box because of a 'y' .... :dh:

 

Mines about the same as its ever been..... reasonably legible but nothing special.

I write in fountain pen so I too tend to have a flowing style, I always end up printing my signature on credit cards as it never fits!!!!!

 

My writing is so bad the BMA threatened to sue me for impersonating a doctor.:D

 

It's well over 50 years since I won a prize for handwriting at school, using a pen with a steel nib dipped in real ink and writing copperplate on that paper with blue and red lines. I later changed my handwriting in my thirties to an italic style. Now, it's a cross between copperplate and italic!

I noticed recently that my writing had got very scruffy and I found it was caused by bad posture; for example, writing in my gardening diary while it was on my lap. I now sit up at a table with my back straight (just like I had to do all those years ago at school) and my writing is better, not as good as it used to be but definitely better.